Before we do anything, I
want you to just take a moment to breathe with me.

(Lee takes a
deep breath in and out)

And again.

(Lee takes
another deep breath in and out)

And one more for
luck.

That feels good.
I hope it feels good to you, too. Because at the moment there are so many
energies flying round -- in our faces, in our bodies -- that just remembering to
stop and breathe as many times a day as you feel you need to or want to will
really just help to bring everything back to zero point. Because the fires are
raging right now. They are raging.

If I backtrack a
little through the year, I can see how a lot of fires were raging outside of us
and coming towards us as a collective. And one of the observations I’ve made in
the last couple of months is that now the fire seems to have gone into a much
more inward phase and process.

So this summer
is much more an inner time. This started in July and is carrying on through
August. The summer is a more inner time of you coming to understand, meet, and
allow fire in your life. This can show up in a multitude of ways - and not all
of them pretty. But when you remember to stop and breathe, you can become
conscious to this incredible inner fire rising in you right now, wanting to
flush out every part of you that no longer serves you or that in the past has
caused you pain, limitation, or in the worst case scenarios, damage. This is a
time where everything is rising for you to not only examine the pieces and
memories, but also to move things around ready for a different future.

You and Your
Strength

As we go through
life, we are given many opportunities to either compress our strength or expand
our strength.

So if there is a
bullying person in your life when you are young, you may decide that they have
the power over you and then compress yourself in response to the bully. For
example, you might have a sibling or another family member who is constantly
putting you down. There are two ways that people will usually go due to that
energy experience:

The Yes Person

You’ll either
become a "yes person," someone who---because of the fear of the
energy that the bully is sending at you---will start to collapse inside and
become more meek. And the problem is, you then go around the world carrying
that energy, and other bullies (other people who want to play 'Alpha' over you)
will find you. They will see that energy, read it in you and target in. So the
same unconscious victim-perpetrator dynamic will play out.

The Rebel

Conversely, you
can become the rebel or the defensive person. You can push against the bully
and be very defensive---locking your arms, locking your energy, learning to
always push back. And the shadow side of being a defensive person or rebel is
that you can block openness, vulnerability, and true intimacy in your life.

The Power
Imbalance Scale - Victim/Perpetrator

So, I've given
you the extreme examples of either end of that power imbalance scale. You might
find yourself somewhere along that line from victim to perpetrator, and not
just in life, but several times a day, on any given day!

Finding the
Sweet Spot - Your True Inner Self

The truth is we
all have both a personality and a soul that we come into this world looking to
explore -- and it’s an individual experience for each of us.

You may not be a
natural victim in your life, but you may have, through circumstances, become
more of a victim than you were designed to be. You may also, through
circumstance, have become more of a rebel than you were designed to be. So
the sweet spot for all of us is finding and having a relationship with our true
inner self.

Every time we get impacted in a relationship --- every time someone hurts us,
wounds us, or brings our energy down --- there is a body impact. The energy of
those emotions goes into the body and creates a deadness or density inside your
body. Which means there is some life force that gets lost in there. There is a
section of you that you can't access.

Kundalini
Rising - Burning through the Density

Kundalini energy
doesn't care about any of that stuff. Kundalini awakening is when your
base chakra remembers your original primal fire of life: that which you came in
with as a baby. And it starts to heat up, and it starts to rise and move its
way all the way through your body. And what it's doing is it’s burning all of
those areas of density so you can open your full spirit again.

You may be very
unaware that kundalini energy is rising in you. But you may be aware that
you’re suddenly remembering a past event and it's going round your memory and
you’re remembering the feelings. That’s your, if you like, more mentally
focused experience of how that kundalini energy is pushing things through you.

This happens
naturally in life all the time. To say that it's been happening at a greater
speed and intensity for more people than ever in the last five years would not
be an exaggeration, and to say that it's been happening at evermore lightning
speed in the last six months is very much what I'm seeing and feeling going on
in the collective.

So right now,
you're in the heart of a complete recalibration of who you are and who you
are here to be.

That is a very
big process. And even though what I'm describing might sound very personal and
very much just about you and your life, it's never just about you and
your life. Even a very self-centered or self-focused person is having a
huge effect on the planet because they're walking around with their energy
affecting everybody and affecting everything.

So, in a way,
the idea of being self- focused or self-centered is mythic when it comes to the
idea that a self-centered or self-focused person is not having an effect on
others. In fact, often those are the people who might be triggering you left,
right, and center. They might be having an almighty effect on you
through their unconsciousness of the effect of their energy on others.

Sensitivity,
Resistance, Compression & Other Positive Signals

So this word
"trigger" is a word that many are going to be feeling right now. A
greater sensitivity in you leads to you being a bit more trigger-able.
Anything in your past that is unresolved --- any of these dense areas in
the body, any of these past impacts --- is absolutely popping up and open right
now so that you can become bigger, wider, and more present . . . more here.

Conversely, some
of you will be experiencing an enormous resistance and heaviness to this
process. You might feel like you've dug in your heels, and you may be
experiencing a health crisis or other crisis in your life that has a lot of
weight and density. You might be saying, “I don’t know what he's talking
about. I just feel like utter crap.”

It's the same
thing, it's just a different position on the energy scale. Essentially, when
you feel that low or that compressed, the only reason that you’re feeling that
low and that compressed --- and not liking or enjoying that feeling --- is
because this fire is trying to push through you. It's trying to awaken you.
It’s trying to rise. And everything inside you that can't let it come through
is what starts to wobble and you go, “Argh! I’m really upset right now, I’m
depressed. I'm…angry.”

Recognizing the Gift In Front of You - Fully Embracing THIS Life

So, sounds
intense right? Well, it IS intense. And it's going to be particularly intense
for those of you who are highly sensitive, highly conscious, and highly
developed. But the beauty of it is that you'll also notice that it's a great
time to fire and rewire who you are, what you're doing, and why you're
here.

It's a great
gift for all of us to remember that people are dying every day at very young
ages. It's a great gift to remember that any day now anything can happen to any
of our loved ones or to us as a group. THAT is the kind of remembrance that
helps you to live!

"I've got this one opportunity in this
physical body.”

Yes, there can be many lifetimes, there can be parallel lifetimes. But in this
physical body, this identity that you know yourself to be, you’ve got one
life. You’ve got one opportunity.

And as you are feeling uncomfortable about some of the suppression that is now
coming to the surface --- whether that's repressed memories or parts of
yourself that you abandoned in the past --- you might find yourself saying,
“God, I can't believe that's how I behaved ten years ago.” You might find that
either you're not pleased with the way you behaved or with the behavior
you accepted from another.

When these
things come up, breathe.

They are not
coming up to make you run back to that person and go to war. They’re not coming
up to make you look back on yourself with self- judgment or shame. They are
coming up because they are moving out.

Preparing for
the September - December Period

I spoke in July
about the September to December period being a period on Earth where strength
is going to come online for you in your life in an almighty new way.

This may be hard
to believe for those of you who are currently on the depressed or crisis-end of
the scale. But your depression and your crisis will keep moving. And September
to December is a period where you can start to stabilize more.

Now, for those
of you who are already flying high and full of positive life-force, it's going
to be a directional energy that you will be able to bring to yourself
September to December.

As I said in
July, I encouraged you to this summer to try not to “do” in the outer world,
unless it feels great to do so. Try and take the rest of this summer as a time
to really be inner. There is an enormous rewiring going on inside people that,
as I mentioned last month, can bring miraculous changes. But it takes time and
you have to be patient with it.

More of you than ever before are right in the heart of this. And you'll see
other people in your life, who maybe aren’t as conscious of that process, going
into chaos, reaction, projection. You'll be tempted to join them sometimes --
especially if they come at you with chaos, reaction, projection. And you'll notice
if you do join them --- if someone shouts at you and you suddenly find yourself
shouting back --- it will feel odd. You might do it, but then you’ll go, “Oh,
that's a bit weird.” It didn't feel authentic or true to you. That's when you know you've temporarily gotten off
center and caught in someone else's energy vortex.

From Anger
and Fire to Peace and Calm

But for most of
you, despite this energy of fire that's going on at a really high level, the
beauty of fire is the peace it reveals. It's an irony that often the
opposite end of an energy scale supports the other. So fire and anger can
really lead to peace and calm. They’re highly connected even though we tend to
think of them as separate entities (we've been in the habit of thinking of
everything as separate). But when you understand that everything is
energy and thus connected --- all sentient life surrounding us here
is energy and is having a relationship and a conversation all day long --- then
you start to understand that you too are energy and are connected. And there is
big energy --- a fire for life --- that is coming through you now and calling
you forward.

Liberation
from "What Other People Think"

In practical
terms, how do the energies of August show up show up? Well, for you it's going
to be a redefining of how you want to live. This can be seen on the global
scale right now where we are, as a collective, trying to figure out and get our
heads around some of the stuff that we’re seeing going on around us and what to
do about that. That's the kind of wider world.

But on the more
micro level, in your personal world, for many of you it will involve a radical
shift in the way that you're relating to others, the work you're doing,
where you're going, the way you want to live.

You might find that with relationships in your life right now you need to make
some sudden changes that don't quite make sense to some of your friends or
loved ones, but they really make sense to you. Trust that.

If you notice that some are resistant to you or that YOU are the concerned one,
saying things like, “I can’t really do that because that’s going really shock
them," I promise you this: In 2-3 months, they’re going to be in the
same energetic dynamic. Because even if they're not in the same mindset as you
right now, we’re all being affected by this catalystic energy of fire that is
essentially heating everything up from below and within. It's melting down a
lot of very metallic and dense energies that existed inside us as individuals
and inside people all across the world.

So don't worry
too much about what others are going to think about what you're doing. That's
the liberation. You don't want to be as concerned about how people think about
what you're doing; you want to be more aware of your place in the energy
flow of things.

Trust that if you are feeling constricted by someone else's demands, there is a
power dynamic playing out between the two of you that isn’t good for them
either, ultimately. Because if someone is asking you to do something that feels
constricting to you, they are also receiving an energy of constriction --- otherwise
you wouldn't be feeling it!

Recognize that barometer in your own body and start trusting yourself. As
we continue at this time on Earth to be feeling and sensing more than ever
before, you’ve gotten really good at reading your sensory body.

The tricky part is practicing it . . . and practicing with it. It's
one thing to be inspired by an inspirational video or book or an inspirational
moment with a friend. It's another thing to take the inspiration and
understanding and put it into action. It's a little more scary for us. It's a
little more unknown. But we can do it!

--Choose
pleasure, growth, and space.
Make some different choices about things that will bring you either more
pleasure, or more growth, or more space in your life. Actively look at how you
can bring some of those aspects into your life because they ALL feed growth in
you, which will feed the growth that you can offer to and give others.

--Forgive. Forgive yourself and forgive everyone
for everything. It's a very famous practice. It shows up in many different
religions and faiths - and in many different ways. Everyone is always doing
their best, which is something you hear me say a lot, so if their best is
repeatedly not serving you, and you can't discuss it with them, move
away from them. Trust the dissonance and make a change rather than stay in
the situation and build up more resentment or sadness.

--Release judgment. Forgiveness is very important for releasing
self-judgment and clearing the judgment of others. Self-judgment and
judgment of others are highly destructive energies -- energies we all feel at
different times because we've grown up in a world that is full of them. The
difference is, you can feel those things in yourself and breathe them out,
asking yourself, “What's underneath this judgment? Why am I triggered? Why am I
attacking myself? Why do I want to attack another?” You can choose to step out
of the fight matrix that exists on our planet, because the fight matrix is
getting very tempting right now. It wants to tempt people into the fight, which
is the way that fire has often been used in our world.

Fire Used for
Love Is Extraordinary

Fire used for
love is the kind of energy that we see in those people who selflessly go around
the world serving love, serving peace. They are some of the great masters on
our planet. Some of these are the taxi driver, the lady who works in the flower
shop, the man in the apartment across the hall from you --- masters appear in
countless roles.

Check In: How
are you mastering your fire this month?

If you're afraid
of your fire, trust it. It will give you a life unlike anything you've
known.

If you're enjoying your fire, ride it, have a good time, but be mindful. It
will be too much for some people. So be aware of where you can go to fully be
in your fire without other people having a negative or opposing reaction to
it.

The rebel in you might say, “I don't care. I want to unleash my fire.” But
trust me, if you're unleashing your fire at someone who doesn't want it
unleashed, their constriction is going to affect your energy flow. This is why
being a defensive rebel is a lose-lose for everybody.

Listening,
Being and Loving

There is a place
in the middle that involves listening and being. And if you get that balance
right --- if you can be yourself and listen for direction to find the places
and the people where you can go to be yourself --- you get bigger, you get
wider, you get fuller. And the end result really is more love for life and more
love for others. This is the energy paradigm that we need more of on the planet
right now as we go through this transformation.

So, I wish you
all love and luck with this coming month. And I will see you again in
September.

~

For those of you
coming to the London and Norway events in this month of August, I'm excited to
be with all of you. They are both now sold out, but I will do more again in the
future.

Also this month: I have a new MP3 available called Authentic Power -
Igniting the Fire of Your Soul. If you wanted to check that out, it's free
to all members of The Portal or you can check it out here.

And finally, a
huge thank you to those of you who donate. Many of you send in financial
donations and that's wonderful. It really supports the work that we produce
here. And so many of you send loving, wonderful messages --- and that is huge.
Thank you so much.